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“Mommy, tonight can we do that thing we did when our cousin was here a long time ago?” Baby Twinkie asked.
“What thing?” I responded, scared of what he might be asking. With Baby Twinkie, you just NEVER know.
“You knowwwwwww…. Where we put a blanket on the floor and you let us eat in the family room and we watch a movie and eat snacks.”
Relieved he didn’t say something like fly to the moon, or toilet paper the mayor’s house, I exclaimed, “Oooooh! You mean an indoor picnic. Yeah, I guess we could do that.”
My thoughts immediately focused on the pile of laundry that needed to folded, the bathrooms that needed to be cleaned, the dishes that needed to washed, the floors that needed to be swept, the bedrooms that needed to be burned to the ground because YES they are THAT dirty. Then I took a deep breath and sighed with relief that I had yet another excuse to put it all off...
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